New prospects for time-of-flight PET with LSO scintillators

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2854-2858

  Moszynski M ^a,b   Kapusta, M ^a,b   Nassalski, A ^b   Szczesniak T ^b   Wolski, D ^b   Eriksson, L ^a,c,d   Melcher, C L ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE   (Poland)

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast PMTs; Fast timing; LSO scintillator; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

FAST TIMING; LSO SCINTILLATORS; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); JITTER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33846609685     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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